<![CDATA[Baker Orange - Features RSS]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/se/baker-orange-features-rss-1.254430 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:29:49 -0400 en <![CDATA[President Pat Long's first four years at Baker]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/president-pat-long-s-first-four-years-at-baker-1.2265664

By: Amanda Helm


Baldwin City residents who stroll through campus on evening walks often meet a couple walking three dogs. The couple smile, they’re friendly and always speak. ...

]]> 1.2265664 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:03:12 -0400 <![CDATA[Potterton presents positives]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/potterton-presents-positives-1.2265663

By: Warren Swenson



If there’s one thing Director of Choral Activities Matthew Potterton wanted to do when he came to Baker, it was raise the bar, and looking back over his first year here, that’s exactly what he’s done....

]]> 1.2265663 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:59:49 -0400 <![CDATA[Spring concert debuts choir]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/spring-concert-debuts-choir-1.2260596

By: Amanda Helm


Voices of Spring Choral Concert marked a premiere performance and the end of a premiere season. It was Baker University Community Choir’s first-ever performance and the last Baker choir concert of Director of Choral Activities Matthew Potterton&rsqu...

]]> 1.2260596 Thu, 6 May 2010 16:27:21 -0400 <![CDATA[Student safety No. 1 priority for Nieder]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/student-safety-no-1-priority-for-nieder-1.2246579

By: Courtney Colin


With one weathered hand on his cell phone, and the other on the steering wheel of the golf cart, 73-year-old security guard Jim Nieder responds to the third call of the night....

]]> 1.2246579 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:12:41 -0400 <![CDATA[BU Percussion Ensemble celebrates 5-year anniversary]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/bu-percussion-ensemble-celebrates-5-year-anniversary-1.2246576

By: Margo Rodewald


Baker University’s Percussion Ensemble has a lot to celebrate, like its fifth anniversary. That’s why Celebrate Percussion is such an appropriate name for the percussion ensemble’s concert....

]]> 1.2246576 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:10:56 -0400 <![CDATA[Baker University Percussion Ensemble celebrates 5-year anniversary with concert]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/baker-university-percussion-ensemble-celebrates-5-year-anniversary-with-concert-1.2245919

By: Margo Rodewald



Baker University’s Percussion Ensemble has a lot to celebrate, like its fifth anniversary.  ...

]]> 1.2245919 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:23:18 -0400 <![CDATA[Students audition for Glee]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/students-audition-for-glee-1.2235641

By: Warren Swenson


If you ask Bob Linebarger, he will tell you he normally doesn’t get nervous, but he’s nervous for this audition. This audition is different....

]]> 1.2235641 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:49:57 -0400 <![CDATA[Baker jazz ensemble prepares concert]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/baker-jazz-ensemble-prepares-concert-1.2235592

By: Megan Perry


Brushing off a piece of framed music from the wall and calling in a favor from an old friend was all it took was to start preparing for Thursday’s Chris Grubb Memorial Scholarship Concert at 7:30 p.m. in Rice Auditorium....

]]> 1.2235592 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:26:04 -0400 <![CDATA[Rachelle Vigna puts thought into business]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/rachelle-vigna-puts-thought-into-business-1.2224897

By: Meagan Thomas


Rachelle Vigna sits at her desk in Parmenter Hall Monday through Friday as the Baker University Campus Visit Coordinator. However, when 5 p.m. hits, Vigna starts her second job. She is a “memory-making specialist” and an entrepreneur....

]]> 1.2224897 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:24:39 -0400 <![CDATA[Students prepare 'Deathtrap' for end of theater season]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/students-prepare-deathtrap-for-end-of-theater-season-1.2224857

By: Megan Perry



Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” asks the question of how far a person would be willing to go in order to obtain everything he or she ever wanted, with a character who has all his lifetime dreams dangled right in front of his face....

]]> 1.2224857 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:17:06 -0400 <![CDATA[Two students team up for junior recital]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/two-students-team-up-for-junior-recital-1.2215956

By: Caitlin Stevenson



An unusual instrumental matchup should make for beautiful music during an upcoming joint junior recital....

]]> 1.2215956 Thu, 8 Apr 2010 03:26:13 -0400 <![CDATA[Students use video chat to keep in touch]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/students-use-video-chat-to-keep-in-touch-1.2202001

By: Meagan Thomas


Skype offers students a personal way to stay in touch with friends and loved ones who are far away....

]]> 1.2202001 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:33:48 -0400 <![CDATA[Alpha Psi Omega begins play tryouts]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/alpha-psi-omega-begins-play-tryouts-1.2201453

By: Caitlin Stevenson


Auditions for Alpha Psi Omega’s annual production took place Monday and Tuesday. The theater honor society will be performing “Mr. Marmalade,” a contemporary play by Noah Haidle....

]]> 1.2201453 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:01:01 -0400 <![CDATA[Sewing provides 'creative outlet']]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/sewing-provides-creative-outlet-1.2188123

By: Margo Rodewald



Which you would rather wear? A shirt that any person can go into a store and buy, or a shirt sewn with your own hands with material only found in a fabric store?  ...

]]> 1.2188123 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:47:57 -0500 <![CDATA[Students share love of music]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/students-share-love-of-music-1.2188082

By: Megan Perry



Baker University music students are spreading their knowledge and passions to students of all ages through the Music Lab School.  ...

]]> 1.2188082 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:35:08 -0500 <![CDATA[Students find unlikely friend in Kwik Shop clerk]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/students-find-unlikely-friend-in-kwik-shop-clerk-1.2180166

By: Alesha Miller



Melinda Hipple isn’t the typical sales associate at a gas station; instead she is a friendly face, an advice giver and a sometimes-motherly figure to many Baker University students who regularly make a run to Kwik Shop....

]]> 1.2180166 Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:52:28 -0500 <![CDATA[Assistant Professor Thomas Peard to deliver speech on self-sacrifice]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/assistant-professor-thomas-peard-to-deliver-speech-on-self-sacrifice-1.2178743

By: Caitlin Stevenson



For the first time in the history of Baker University, a current professor will take the podium and deliver his published speech as a part of the Milford White Lecture.  ...

]]> 1.2178743 Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:06:54 -0500 <![CDATA[House mom fights for spot on TV]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/house-mom-fights-for-spot-on-tv-1.2170639

By: Margo Rodewald



If you wanted to outwit, outplay and outlast competitors in the wilderness, facing obstacles like brutal weather, exotic animals and the occasional sassy castaway, what lengths would you go to accomplish this?...

]]> 1.2170639 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:43:02 -0500 <![CDATA[Six BU students chosen for honor band]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/six-bu-students-chosen-for-honor-band-1.2169352

By: Courtney Colin


Light blue curtains outline the shapes of instruments that stand along the walls of the band room as sophomore Mariah Barnett sits alone with her cello and empty chairs surrounding her.  ...

]]> 1.2169352 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:02:40 -0500 <![CDATA[Baker professor Carolyn Doolittle has vast movie collection]]> http://www.thebakerorange.com/lifestyles/baker-professor-carolyn-doolittle-has-vast-movie-collection-1.2159281

By: Courtney Colin



A picture of the Doolittle family hangs on the light green wall in the living room of their Ottawa home, facing the cozy mix of couches and chairs where a similar family scene often takes place....

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